>>10190709I know a lot of people love the Keanu movie, but that movie was a watered down, homogenized version of the story, for better or worse.
Constantine is technically a DC comic and is part of the DCU, but his original run basically had an unspoken rule not to crossover with any superhero stuff, and time progressed and consequences/deaths stayed permanent. While its not a single writer, writers stayed on for years at a time and built up on prior work, editors
Unfortunately, since 2013 it basically has been capeshit once the publishing imprint was dissolved back into DC. But the original run does have a basically complete story, and John ages in semi real time so he goes from being in his 20's/30's in the 80's to being in his 60's by the end. The biggest difference from the movie and the comic, besides movie John being a black haired American and John being British and blonde, is that Comics John never really stops being a self-serving asshole. There's no hollywood movie lesson for him. John isn't amoral, but he's self-preserving, he'll do good things, sure, but very often he'll get fucked over for them and regret doing so. Then conversely he'll be selfish and get rewarded for it. Its very atypical to standard superhero comics or Hollywood movie story telling which makes it interesting.
But yeah, toy is good. I wouldn't be surprised is some Chinese unlicensed company makes a Keanu version too eventually.
